Green Business Solutions

Articles on pollution prevention

• Small Truck Fleets Could Qualify for CARB Pollution Prevention Funds from Prop 1B California Prop 1B grants to reduce diesel emissions from trucks, locomotives, and harborcraft in busiest trade corridors: Los Angeles, San Diego, Bay Area, and Central Valley.
  
• Centrifuge Can Clean Oil Spills at 500 Gallons/Minute Cleaning the oil from the Gulf requires BIG first response solutions. Kevin Costner has one... a centrifuge for use at the spill site.
  
• EPA Names New Superfund Sites The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is adding 10 new hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites.
  
• Colbert Investigates Genital Deformations! Endocrine disruptors really amount to penis deformation...huh? Only Colbert can put the issue of plastic pollution into perspective.
  
• Continuous Coating Corp. Removes 70,000 lbs of Lead from Manufacturing
  
• Preventing Plastic Pollution Not doing some things is more effective than going out of your way to buy or do other things... think through your choices and you'll come out the winner!
  
• Pollution Prevention (P2) for Food Manufacturing Pollution CAN be detected, measured and managed. That's what P2 is about...managing the chemicals, natural ingreidients and even solids that are mishandled and lead to damaged workplaces, products and our living environment.
  
• Liquid Chromotography Used to Identify Chemical Compounds According to the USGS, a total of 158 emerging contaminants can currently be measured in aqueous samples
  
• Managing Emerging Contaminants in the Environment The USGS Emerging Contaminants Project provides information on new and emerging compounds for evaluation of their threat to environmental and human health.
  
• USGS Methods to Identify Emerging Contaminants USGS provides research on identifying contaminants to prevent and manage pollution
  
• Pollutions Prevention for Marine Debris to Protect Coastal Economy Ocean litter is 60-80% plastics and more than 80% of the ocean debris is from land-based sources. Here are proposed solutions.
  
• Pollution Prevention for Roads, Highways and Bridges EPA provides best practices for Pollution Prevention for Roads, Highways and Bridges. The result can be saving both time and costs,
  
• Lead from Hunting and Fishing Build Millions of Pounds of Pollutants Annually Lead from hunting and fishing is an environmental hazard to wildlife, plants and groundwater supplies.
  
• Pollution Prevention - P2 Pollution Prevention for green manufacturing and operations
  
• Pollution Prevention for Manufacturing Best Practices Pollution Prevention P2 for Manufacturing Sustainability using Best Practices for Recycling, and Natural Resource Conservation
  
• Honeywell Cleans LA San Fernando Valley Superfund Site for Drinking Water Supplies Brownfield cleanup construction of a wellhead treatment system for chromium in the North Hollywood region of the San Fernando Valley - Area 1 Superfund Site.
  
• Smart Growth Implementation Assistance Program Provides Brownfields Technical Assistance Technical Assistance for Smart Growth Implementation Assistance has been provided by EPA to a growing list of communities seeking pollution remediation solutions for brownfields.
  
• Impaired Waters and Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) Resources Website Website to help with stormwater runoff and TMDL water pollution management
  
• Marine JUNK Awareness by Algalita Marine Research Foundation JUNK raft's journey from California to Hawaii brings public attention to the plastic marine debris issue.
  
• How Polluted Is Your Area's Water? Interactive Online Maps of California Pollutants California Coast Keepers’ maps educate about water pollution in California and how to improve the health of California’s polluted waterways.
  
• San Francisco develops early-warning water contaminant systems EPA's Water Security Initiative is expected to serve as a model for the nation’s drinking water utilities.
  
• Pollution prevention PLUS lean manufacturing = green procurement. By combining Lean and Clean manufacturing methods, technical reviews optimize resources
  
• California Waste Reduction Awards Program Application Process All businesses and private nonprofit organizations with California facilities are encouraged to apply for an annual WRAP award.
  
• Zero Emission Wall Plasters for Commercial Interiors - American Clay Earth Plasters ENJARRE by American Clay is a single-coat plaster directed at the commercial and multi-unit residential markets.
  
• Pharmaceutical Residues in Water Supply - Position Statement Effluents from centralized sewage treatment plants are the principal source pharmaceutical residues in water resources
  
• Communities Plan for Safe Drinking Water Protection of groundwater from contamination is a concern.
  
• Groundwater Studies Measure Aquifers Contaminants Under San Joaquin Dairies Agricultural runoff tests track pollutants for regional water tables that supply fresh water for the community
  
• Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Releases by California Companies - 2007 Report Annual Report of Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Released in California
  
• Brownfields Reclamation Becomes Community College Campus in Newark, CA EPA funds cleanup of community college campus
  
• 40% of Oceans Are Significantly Affected by Human Activity Pollutants Comprehensive marine map of human activity shows 41 percent of the world's ocean are heavily affected